So if I help someone fix their computer over the phone, or via video chat, and then charge 1-2 hours for my time, I've commited a crime of practicing engineering without a license?!?!?
No, because you aren't required to be licensed to fix computers. If you put a sticker on the side of your car saying "Chauffer Services" and drove people around town without first passing a driving test, you'd probably be breaking the law.
I can understand someone doing something stupid like deciding to forego certain medications (in this case Metformin, Insulin, whatever) but skipping surgery based on what some random dude on a blog says? C'mon, you're flirting with argumentum ad absurdum there.
Untreated diabetes can lead to complications which require lower limb amputation. A solicitor could argue that the "advice" regarding "treatment" given on this blog may well have resulted in the diabetes sufferer not seeking professional medical advice for a life-threatening complication, as they believed they were already treating the condition.
Furthermore, I'm no lawyer, but I don't know how much legal protection those "disclaimers" will get you. If I say "I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, but..." and then continue to give what certainly looks, to the lay man, like legal advice, is the 10-word-disclaimer sufficient protection? I am dubious.
Odd choice of example, there. The Slip was released under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike license. You may distribute it without contravening the licensing terms as long as you do not profit from the distribution, and you don't attribute the work to anyone other than Trent Reznor.
I understand the point you're making, but that kind of mistake is the sort of thing idiots will jump on to "prove" you know nothing of the subject.
A little late now, but how many Facebook friends posted "Happy Birthday!" on your real birthday, making your fake information useless? How many "checked in" from their smart phones, saying "At $Bar with cpu6502 for his birthday party!" doing the same thing?
I don't have a Facebook account anymore, for exactly this reason. No matter how careful you are, some other idiot is going to fuck it up for you.
There is only one long term strategy; If it still does the job, run it until it dies, then replace it. If it doesn't do the job, upgrade. My Q6600 still does the job; I boot to Windows 7 / Mint in under a minute, games perform well at my monitors native resolution. I don't sit idly by while video is transcoding / running long processes anyway, so how fast unattended workloads take makes no difference.
When it dies, I'll do the whole thing again. I'll keep the graphics card (replaced due to hardware failure), but the rest will be scrapped. I couldn't buy an LGA775 processor to replace it now if I wanted to.
Methods are based upon rigour. Theories are based upon hunches.
"Science" is the act of rigourously testing the data leading towards a hunch, with a view of proving it true or false. It has nothing to do with the ideas themselves.
... [W]atching senior CS people leaving this company, and my last company, has been very disappointing. Some left for better opportunities, most left due to threats of furlough or layoff. Guess billion dollar profits isn't enough to keep people though...
So they should. Sticking with companies who engage in this kind of sociopathic behaviour only reinforces it.
Leave them with 21 year old kids with no experience as their only hires, watch their products drop to below Chinese sweatshop quality, and lose all marketshare to competitors who offer a reasonable wage for a days' work. It will take maybe two years to end a big company this way (if everybody leaves en masse), but we'll all be better off for it.
Care to share with us how you found out about this hoax? The links I can find are either gas industry sites or youtube videos of the phenomenon. I'm accepting neither as impartial.
Wait, wait, wait a second! So you're saying that the actors are just acting like actors, they're not real actors? How can you tell an actor is real and is not just acting like an actor, anyway? What if someone is so good at acting that you can't tell they are an actor, likewise what if someone is so bad at acting you think they are just acting like they're not a real actor when in fact they are an actor after all.
Write to your MEPs stating that you don't care about not travelling to the US as Europe has some fine culture and business opportunities, you don't want the US to have unfettered and unnecessary access to your personal information, and if they kowtow to this request they damn well won't be MEPs next term.
But even "significantly longer" is infinitely better than "never", so for those keeping score, the AC who said,
Everyone knows that the solar panels consume far more energy in their production than they ever produce in their lifetime
...is completely full of shit.
Unless the panel is placed in an area where it rains a lot and winters aren't particularly sunny (UK anyone?). I can easily see that a solar panel in a temperate region can easily fail before it's broken even with production cost.
Hanz Ze Vacationer is me. I'll be visiting Europe, Asia, Australasia instead of the US for my holidays.
Jean le Commerce can video-conference. I've had great results with Tandberg (now Cisco) teleconferencing systems in the past, and I'm willing to bet that for the cost of 3 return flights + hotels and expenses you could kit out an entire suite.
Plus, US Customs can't confiscate your laptop and detain you without probable cause because you didn't want to be x-rayed by a security guard if you never go there in the first place.
If we're worried about kids emulating what they see on the internet then what about the sites with videos of the Taliban cutting people's heads off?
"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene." - Walter Kurtz, Apocalypse Now!
It's to hide the taste of the swill you Southerners call beer.
Just out of shot of every scene where Bear Grylls drinks water wrung from dung, blood from a dead animal, or his own pee, is a pub serving ale Southern Style, aka mill pond flat and cloudy. Not even he will drink it.
If you didn't understand my post, you don't belong in civilised society. Please read it again.
Ok, i'll repost it for clarity
Why would you hate someone for doing something that doesn't affect you, for reasons you have no idea of?
Well, the "something that doesn't affect me" in this instance is setting another living person on fire. The idea is abhorrent.
Furthermore, and I probably could have been more clear about this, "you" is not you daem0n1x. "You" in my original reply was the reader. If the reader thinks that setting another living person on fire for any reason whatsoever is an acceptable course of action, it is my opinion that they do not belong in civilised society. I am well aware that calling the society this situation occurred "civilised" would be a point of contention; I'm merely expressing my own view on the matter.
Did I misunderstand your post? If so, I'll be sure to make my way over to you with an accelerant. In for a penny, eh?:)
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So if I help someone fix their computer over the phone, or via video chat, and then charge 1-2 hours for my time, I've commited a crime of practicing engineering without a license?!?!?
No, because you aren't required to be licensed to fix computers. If you put a sticker on the side of your car saying "Chauffer Services" and drove people around town without first passing a driving test, you'd probably be breaking the law.
I can understand someone doing something stupid like deciding to forego certain medications (in this case Metformin, Insulin, whatever) but skipping surgery based on what some random dude on a blog says? C'mon, you're flirting with argumentum ad absurdum there.
Untreated diabetes can lead to complications which require lower limb amputation. A solicitor could argue that the "advice" regarding "treatment" given on this blog may well have resulted in the diabetes sufferer not seeking professional medical advice for a life-threatening complication, as they believed they were already treating the condition.
Furthermore, I'm no lawyer, but I don't know how much legal protection those "disclaimers" will get you. If I say "I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, but..." and then continue to give what certainly looks, to the lay man, like legal advice, is the 10-word-disclaimer sufficient protection? I am dubious.
downloading the latest Nine Inch Nails album
Odd choice of example, there. The Slip was released under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike license. You may distribute it without contravening the licensing terms as long as you do not profit from the distribution, and you don't attribute the work to anyone other than Trent Reznor.
I understand the point you're making, but that kind of mistake is the sort of thing idiots will jump on to "prove" you know nothing of the subject.
This is why my minions will all have stylish uniforms. It gives them legitimacy.
You'd be amazed at where you can go with a clipboard and a high-viz jacket.
A little late now, but how many Facebook friends posted "Happy Birthday!" on your real birthday, making your fake information useless? How many "checked in" from their smart phones, saying "At $Bar with cpu6502 for his birthday party!" doing the same thing?
I don't have a Facebook account anymore, for exactly this reason. No matter how careful you are, some other idiot is going to fuck it up for you.
There is only one long term strategy; If it still does the job, run it until it dies, then replace it. If it doesn't do the job, upgrade. My Q6600 still does the job; I boot to Windows 7 / Mint in under a minute, games perform well at my monitors native resolution. I don't sit idly by while video is transcoding / running long processes anyway, so how fast unattended workloads take makes no difference.
When it dies, I'll do the whole thing again. I'll keep the graphics card (replaced due to hardware failure), but the rest will be scrapped. I couldn't buy an LGA775 processor to replace it now if I wanted to.
Methods are based upon rigour. Theories are based upon hunches.
"Science" is the act of rigourously testing the data leading towards a hunch, with a view of proving it true or false. It has nothing to do with the ideas themselves.
General Marshall
Any relation to Major Major?
... [W]atching senior CS people leaving this company, and my last company, has been very disappointing. Some left for better opportunities, most left due to threats of furlough or layoff. Guess billion dollar profits isn't enough to keep people though...
So they should. Sticking with companies who engage in this kind of sociopathic behaviour only reinforces it.
Leave them with 21 year old kids with no experience as their only hires, watch their products drop to below Chinese sweatshop quality, and lose all marketshare to competitors who offer a reasonable wage for a days' work. It will take maybe two years to end a big company this way (if everybody leaves en masse), but we'll all be better off for it.
Care to share with us how you found out about this hoax? The links I can find are either gas industry sites or youtube videos of the phenomenon. I'm accepting neither as impartial.
Wait, wait, wait a second! So you're saying that the actors are just acting like actors, they're not real actors? How can you tell an actor is real and is not just acting like an actor, anyway? What if someone is so good at acting that you can't tell they are an actor, likewise what if someone is so bad at acting you think they are just acting like they're not a real actor when in fact they are an actor after all.
Yo dawg...
Every element heavier than gold was made in a supernova.
I could be wrong but I thought you could only get to Iron in a star.
Is the latter not included in the former? >_>
Write to your MEPs stating that you don't care about not travelling to the US as Europe has some fine culture and business opportunities, you don't want the US to have unfettered and unnecessary access to your personal information, and if they kowtow to this request they damn well won't be MEPs next term.
The government *most of them* deserve.
Depends on the voting system. First Past the Post, for example (using major UK parties:
Tory: 45%
Labour: 31%
LibDem: 24%
Majority don't want Tory, yet Tory is the "winner".
But even "significantly longer" is infinitely better than "never", so for those keeping score, the AC who said,
Everyone knows that the solar panels consume far more energy in their production than they ever produce in their lifetime
...is completely full of shit.
Unless the panel is placed in an area where it rains a lot and winters aren't particularly sunny (UK anyone?). I can easily see that a solar panel in a temperate region can easily fail before it's broken even with production cost.
Every element heavier than gold was made in a supernova.
Boggles the mind.
Wimpy politicians that have forgotten who they represent.
Democracy ensures that people get the government they deserve, not the government they want.
Start your own party. In fact, I think the Pirate Party is all "Down With This Sort Of Thing!"
No vote is wasted, and never believe anybody who tells you otherwise. That's how they keep winning.
You can pick your routes to avoid them. Yeah, it'll cost more, but choice always has. Convenience is expensive.
Hanz Ze Vacationer is me. I'll be visiting Europe, Asia, Australasia instead of the US for my holidays.
Jean le Commerce can video-conference. I've had great results with Tandberg (now Cisco) teleconferencing systems in the past, and I'm willing to bet that for the cost of 3 return flights + hotels and expenses you could kit out an entire suite.
Plus, US Customs can't confiscate your laptop and detain you without probable cause because you didn't want to be x-rayed by a security guard if you never go there in the first place.
So whereas law makers could have said there was no need to change the law to achieve what the studios want
Who gives half a shit, let alone a full one, about what the studios want? Innovate or die. All else is ineffective.
If we're worried about kids emulating what they see on the internet then what about the sites with videos of the Taliban cutting people's heads off?
"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene." - Walter Kurtz, Apocalypse Now!
If it were collectible, it would be quite noteworthy as one of the biggest anti-circumvention awards of all time. But, it's not collectible.
The linked op-ed doesn't say why.
It's to hide the taste of the swill you Southerners call beer.
Just out of shot of every scene where Bear Grylls drinks water wrung from dung, blood from a dead animal, or his own pee, is a pub serving ale Southern Style, aka mill pond flat and cloudy. Not even he will drink it.
If you didn't understand my post, you don't belong in civilised society. Please read it again.
Ok, i'll repost it for clarity
Why would you hate someone for doing something that doesn't affect you, for reasons you have no idea of?
Well, the "something that doesn't affect me" in this instance is setting another living person on fire. The idea is abhorrent.
:)
Furthermore, and I probably could have been more clear about this, "you" is not you daem0n1x. "You" in my original reply was the reader. If the reader thinks that setting another living person on fire for any reason whatsoever is an acceptable course of action, it is my opinion that they do not belong in civilised society. I am well aware that calling the society this situation occurred "civilised" would be a point of contention; I'm merely expressing my own view on the matter.
Did I misunderstand your post? If so, I'll be sure to make my way over to you with an accelerant. In for a penny, eh?